Quotes
The Boyett Style Guide: (a) anything worth doing is worth overdoing (I can’t write a check if it isn’t in iambic pentameter); (b) anything worth saying is worth saying three times; (c) leave no literary stone unturned; (d) fill all cracks, paint all surfaces, and illuminate all dark corners; and (e) whenever two or more metaphors are suitable, use them all. I never metaphor I didn’t like.
p. 399
Don’t worry. The only skeletons in my closet belong to the mice.
p. 261
“Like John Lennon said, ‘All You Need Is Love.’”
“Yes, but he also said, ‘I Am The Walrus,’ so let’s not hold too much credence to his pearls of wisdom.”
p. 43
One nice thing about working with a piece of machinery: you don’t waste time trying to justify your actions.
p. 123
“It’s an old trick,” the security chief said. “Reverse cunning, we call it in the security game; indistinguishable from utter stupidity.”
p. 380
“Just what is your position here?”
“I’m an adviser to his Majesty.” Nicodaeus smiled blandly. “He thinks I’m a master of magic, of course, but among these feather-heads a little common sense is sufficient to earn one a reputation as a wise man.”
p. 67
Strange—I go along for months at a time—even years—without so much as a mild concussion—and then bam—slam—bash! They start using my head for a practice dummy. That’s how I can tell that I’m having an adventure.
p. 557
“Him and his pet dragon—”
“More folklore, I take it?”
“Well, I never actually seen this dragon.”
“Hmmm. Funny how nobody I’ve met has seen it, but they all believe in it.”
p. 124
“All right. Let’s begin with the world situation.”
“I’d prefer a more cheerful subject—like cancer.”
p. 10
I’m arguing with myself and I can’t tell who’s winning.
p. 49
“I say, old man, you’re developing something of a persecution complex, I’m afraid—”
“That’s easy, when you’re persecuted.”
p. 128
I was still alive, but that was a mere detail, subject to change. (p. 13)
